PHP Fatal error: Cannot use Underscore\Types\String as String because 'String' is a special class name

[tomzx]

Can this be fixed in the 1.x branch please? Thanks!

[oyepez003]

Try:

use Underscore\Types\String as BaseString;

[Anahkiasen]

I don't really have any OS time lately but I'll try to make a new release with the fix on develop as soon as I can

[kenorb]

This issue is very confusing, as I'm using the following code in my composer.json:

{
  "require": {
    "radic/tmp-underscore-php": "dev-master"
  }
}

which points to https://github.com/radic-forks/underscore-php as a source code at the packagist repository.

This problem doesn't exist in this repository in the current master branch. So I've generated pull request against radic-forks/underscore-php at radic-forks/pull/1 which is maintained by @RobinRadic.

[tony-garand]

I am having this problem as well. Says this only works on php 4.3.0

[kenorb]

Solution

Here is the workaround which involves patching:

{
  "require": {
    "anahkiasen/underscore-php": "^1.3"
  },
  "require-dev": {
    "cweagans/composer-patches": "~1.0"
  },
  "extra": {
    "enable-patching": "true",
    "patches": {
      "anahkiasen/underscore-php": {
        "Fixes PHP Fatal error: Cannot use Underscore\\Types\\String as String":
          "https://github.com/kenorb-contrib/underscore-php/commit/10ef6b69b260d87647801fd19f2e2c9bb2a2f599.patch"
      }
    }
  }
}

It should work well. Ideally replace the patch from your own fork or local file.

Patch file:

From 10ef6b69b260d87647801fd19f2e2c9bb2a2f599 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kenorb <kenorb@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:38:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes PHP Fatal error: Cannot use Underscore\Types\String as
 String (ref: Anahkiasen/underscore-php/issues/96)

---
 src/Methods/StringMethods.php | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Methods/StringMethods.php b/src/Methods/StringMethods.php
index 52c2ee6..f696135 100644
--- a/src/Methods/StringMethods.php
+++ b/src/Methods/StringMethods.php
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 namespace Underscore\Methods;
 
 use Illuminate\Support\Str;
-use Underscore\Types\String;
+use Underscore\Types\String as BaseString;
 
 /**
  * Methods to manage strings
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public static function accord($count, $many, $one, $zero = null)
      */
     public static function randomStrings($words, $length = 10)
     {
-        return String::from('0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
+        return BaseString::from('0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
                      ->shuffle()
                      ->split($length)
                      ->slice(0, $words)

[Anahkiasen]

Does @RobinRadic want to be added as collaborator to this repo maybe? If he's maintaining a stable fork it could be easier to let him update this repository directly

[guychouk]

@Anahkiasen a similar patch is needed for Object as well, got the following error when using PHP Version 7.2:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot use 'Object' as class name as it is reserved.

Please see the similar issue on yii2's Repository